Electronic WorkBench tutorial Introduction

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Electronic WorkBench tutorial 
Introduction 
 
Electronic WorkBench (EWB) is a simulation package for electronic 
circuits. It allows you to design and analyze circuits without using 
breadboards, real components or actual instruments. EWB's click-and-
drag operations make editing a circuit fast and easy. You can change 
parameters and circuit components on the fly, which make "what-if" 
analysis straight foreward.
This tutorial is intended as a quick introduction to EWB's basic 
features. It first leads you through the fundamental steps of putting a 
circuit together and analyzing its function using the instruments. The 
final part of the tutorial consists of two exercises that try to illustrate the 
power of EWB. It also tries to encourage you to apply the "what if" 
approach to circuit design. It will greatly help your understanding of 
electronics if you use EWB in an interactive manner: Make change to the 
circuits you are working on, observe the effects that these changes have, 
and try to understand them. EWB puts very little constraints on 
parameters so do not be too timid, don't just change things by 10%, try 
out what happens when you change them by a couple of orders in 
magnitude. 
Directly printing EWB schematics and graphs does usually not 
produce satisfactory result, and leads to a tremendous waste of paper. It 
is better to incorporate EWB results by copying them to the clipboard 
using the 
copy as bitmap
command, and then pasting this into a 
something like a word document.

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To open EWB click on its icon. Initially you will see an empty 
circuit window and two toolbars, the circuit toolbar with the common file 
management, editing and graphics tools, and a Parts Bin toolbar from 
which you can select a wide range of circuit elements, and instruments. 
The following will guide you on your first attempt to simulate circuits.